yeah I disagree with the notion that it was about "Redeeming" vriska because it outright tells you this isn't about redemption, that making ammends or taking "punishment" for her bad deeds (which boy do people love to insist she simply needs to take her punishment) or whatever aren't going to free her from the plot point, that it is about her growing up and trying to move beyond what scratch and her lusus and alternian society groomed her to be.